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What B&N needs to do is fix the firmware. It's letting down the hardware.
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I actually wish B&N well and would love to see the Nook flourish. But personally I would not spend my money on one right now. |
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09-26-2020, 12:13 AM | #21 |
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09-26-2020, 12:44 AM | #22 | |
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After typing this, I'm going to resist searching the forum. I'd probably find a post where I stated why I didn't buy the Nook |
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09-26-2020, 01:22 AM | #23 |
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JB sold just about all of them at one time or another. I think the LCD device was a Yellowstone, but don't quote me on it.
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09-26-2020, 06:14 AM | #24 |
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I remember when Borders sold Kobo.
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09-26-2020, 07:25 AM | #25 | |
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But as with B&N, I’m not condemning Kobo out of hand as a look under my avatar should show. |
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09-26-2020, 12:03 PM | #26 |
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People on here are conflating purchasing a Nook and purchasing ebooks from B&N. The two do not have to go together. Currently I wouldn't suggest buying ebooks from B&N. They willl work fine on your Nook. But later if you decide to move on to Kobo or Kindle, you will likely have trouble removing the DRM so your Nook books can be moved to another reader.
I have Nooks and Kobos and buy books from Amazon. And you mentioned you are digitizing things you already have.If you want to buy a reader and mainlly buy books directly available on it, I'd say buy a Kindle. I quite like my Nook Glowlight Plus and Glowlight 3. Hardware is nicer than the competitors. The Glowlight 3 has a better screen than any other 6" reader I've seen, it has page turn buttons and the amber light for night reading is much nicer than a simillar feature on my Clara. The reading experience on the Nook is great. The software (everything that is not reading) lacks features a Kindle or Kobo has. They are behind there. But I've found a lot of those features, though they look good on paper, do not impact me. Missing features or no, I spend about as much time reading on my Nook as I do my Kobo. I wouldn't buy a Nook on the assumption that every Barnes and Noble store will act something like the Genius Bar. The people there are there to sell books and likely have little to no training on Nooks. Sideloaded books, forget it buddy. They will not know. |
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There's a lot of things about Nook's firmware that I like a lot. Some things better than Kobo. Sideloading fonts and maybe more font control are all that is missing. What really puts Kobo over the top is that Calibre can access Kobo's database to manually control collections and series. If Nook's database were equally accessible, I wouldn't use Kobo any longer. But then if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. |
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09-26-2020, 09:17 PM | #29 |
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True. But I think this focus is because of the original post, which was envisaging buying e-books from B&N, at least initially. For those using Calibre and removing DRM the e-book store on the device you use is not particularly relevant unless you make it so.
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09-28-2020, 04:08 PM | #30 | |
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- If I move overseas, buying books through Amazon might be more limited. - Amazon seems pretty aggressive about the walled garden. I'm more of an open-source guy, and Kobo seems more compatible that philosophy (although I know Kobo isn't actually open source). - I've heard that Amazon puts a lot of pressure on publishers to lower their prices, and the publishers and authors are feeling squeezed by it. I don't know what the various players' financials look like (maybe Amazon is talking more about cleaning up publishers' inefficiencies), but overall it doesn't look good. |
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